07-12-2014
• http://www.businessinsider.com
If you're considering seeing "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" this weekend, you may want to hold off. While the movie is receiving good reviews, you should definitely turn your attention to indie film "Boyhood."

Director Richard Linklater has been working on the movie for the past 12 years, filming the same actors as they aged for over a decade. Between 2002 and 2013, Linklater met up with the cast for a few days a year to film a several scenes with Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and then 6-year-old child actor Ellar Coltrane.

As viewers, we literally watch Coltrane grow up on screen as his character Mason deals with the pain of divorce, the awkward phase of puberty, and his first love.